NCT03668483

Relation Between Muscle Strength With Exercise Capacity and Dyspnea in LTx

Relation Between Upper and Lower Limb Muscle Strength With Exercise Capacity and Dyspnea in Patients With Awaiting Lung Transplantation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Severe exercise intolerance and shortness of breath are present in lung transplant candidates. Clinical features that reveal these symptoms in terminal period lung patients vary and are unclear. The effect of peripheral muscle strength on exercise capacity and dyspnea will be examined in our study.

Detailed description

Yedikule Chest Diseases Patients who have been accepted to participate in the pre-operative rehabilitation program at the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit will be included in the study. A 6-min walk test, peripheral and respiratory muscle strength measurements, and a dyspnea rating scale Mmrc will be applied to the lung transplantation candidates who are trained in 3-month hospital-based preoperative exercise training in the Pulmonary Rehabilitation unit. The tests will be carried out at the beginning and end of rehabilitation. At each testing session, the tests will be performed by the same physiotherapist. The correlations of the test data with each other will be analyzed.

Conditions

• Lung Transplantation
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pulmonary rehabilitation	A 6-min walk test, peripheral and respiratory muscle strength measurements, and a dyspnea rating scale Mmrc will be applied to the lung transplantation candidates who are trained in 3-month hospital-based preoperative exercise training in the Pulmonary Rehabilitation unit. The tests will be carried out at the beginning and end of rehabilitation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-20
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• Completion: 2019-08-01
• First posted: 2018-09-12
• Last updated: 2019-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)